D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
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science oxygen two
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
religious irreverence dirt
If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab
freedom lying mean
Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.
dark soul singing
Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.
past sea age
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.
lovely noble literature
Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.
horse dark men
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man!
dream healing past
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.
land sorrow gold
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
morning father book
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
soul sticks traitor
One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.
sex thinking society
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
cake rotten
You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.